The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1887-11-19

| gOOu, clean, christian cOmpany-p6T-
haps just as good as can be found in the
Methodist church-may be no better.
He would have found himself in more
absolute communion, as it seems to us,
with Jesus Christ, and with all the
apostles and prophets, and with long
line of illustrious worthless, from Ori-
gen to the present time, including the
best thinkers of to-day in literature,
poetry, history, philosophy and religion.
We are proud of our company, although
we do not care to boast Of it, not to de-
tract from others. Much less do we
wish to misrepresent or slander them.
We even think we have great reason to
honor the Methodist church for its
grand work, and to love their people.
1t does not hurt us bit to do this. We
enjoy it.
Br. Warner undertakes to claim that
Haddock was not a Universalist, but
that he opposed Universalism as false
and pernicious and as a system that
sets ajar the gates of heaven, and pulls
down the walls, and by implication,
let's everybody in, good and bad. Mr.
Haddock never made any such false
and base insinuation against Universal
ism, after he himself became a Univer-
salist, if indeed he ever did. The proof
that Geo. G. Haddock became a Uni
versalist in the fullest sense is abun-
dant in his own words. 1t did not serve
the purpose Of Br. Warner to quote any
Of these words. Here are some of them?
In his manuscript volume entitled,
"Hell not Eternal" he says, "Until
lately he accepted the common doctrine
of limited probation and the endless
punishment Of the wicked" Again,
Through supernatural influences, and
a thorough and independent eXamina-
tion of the Scriptures, he has become
fully convinced that Jesus Christ is
Gods pledge to this world of the final sal
vation of every human being. ""If Christ
has died for all, then it must be the
desire and plan Of God to save all. If
Christ is the brother of all, then he can
not take satisfaction in the loss of any.
An endless hell can not but be looked
upon with intense aversion by an inf
nitely loving God, and it is impossible
to see how the two can exist in the
same universe" "It is as possible for
God to save one man as another, as
possible to save all as any," 1.-THE
Divine Being has so constituted man
that he will eventually obey the law of
his highest nature" :" That which
ought to be, in the end will be, as sure
as there is God" ga universal atone
ment calls for universal salvation"
And after very much more, that is, if
possible, clearer and stronger, he ex-
claims, "How glorious is this doctrine
we need not be hopeless as to any of
the dead. They belong not to the devil,
but to him who bought them with his
own life, and in his own good time will
he raise them from the deepest, dark
est tombs of evil, and lift them to the
land of light" Now what is all this,
and vastly more which we might quote,
if not the clearest, fullest, and strong
est Universalism Has any Univer-
salist minister ever uttered anything
YIoipar or etronoarp
Frank G. Haddock says his father
afterWard modified this belief and pTac-
tically abandoned his Universalism, and
Br. Warner re-affirms this and asserts
that Haddock's final thought was anita
gonistic to Universalism. What evil
dence do either give of these things
Not particle. There is no evidence.
The son has been urged time and again,
to present some word that his father
has ever uttered or written, showing
such modification or abandonment. He
has utterly failed to give one syllable
Of evidence beyond his naked assertion.
We have abundant reasons for believ-
ing that the final thought of Geo. G.
HaddOck was Universalism. We have
never had so much as the shadow of a
reason given, neither in the book nor out
of it, going to show that Geo. c. Had
dock either modified or abandoned his
Universalism. TIE biography itself
gives us every reason to believe that he
died in this glorious faith-and no sub
sequent developments reveal any evil
dence to the contrary. The son freely
confesses in the biography, that the
fathers Universalism gave him new
cheerfulness of life, and greatly enlarged
his power as a preacher of the gospel,
and every way had an eleVating and en-
nObling influence upon his life and cha
acter. Br. Warner suggests that Had
dock passed through a transition in
his thinking, as all active and independ-
ent minds do" If Br. Warmers mind
belongs to this order, we shall look with
interest for his transition" and hope
it may come soon and be as complete
and grand as Haddock's. Br. Warner
also tells us that he does not write
with any view TO controversy on the
subject" Very likely. We can very
well understand that one who should
write such an article would be very